Graphics card manufacturers are starting to announce their line-up of cards based on Nvidia’s low end and mid-range Direct X 10 GPUs. The Register states that PNY has confirm they will start selling on April 17th the 8600 GTS based on the GeForce 8600 GT graphics chip with 256MB of GDDR 3 memory.
Similarly The Inquirer states that Asus has announced details of their 8600 GTS card. The EN8600 GTS/G/HTDP/256M card has 256MB of memory with clock speeds of 675MHz core and 1000MHz (DDR3) memory and a 128-bit memory interface and 32 stream processors.
By comparison the 8800 GTS has 320 or 640 MB of DDR3 memory at 800 MHz and a 500 MHz core. It however has a 320-bit memory interface and 96 stream processors and can process 24 billion texels per second.
DailyTech rounds up details of the 8600 and 8500 chips.